NEW DELHI: The Allahabad excessive court docket overturned the Ghazipur court docket’s resolution that sentenced Samajwadi Celebration MP Afzal Ansari to 4 years in jail underneath the Gangsters Act in reference to the 2005 homicide of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai.
On account of the excessive court docket’s ruling in favor of Ansari’s attraction in opposition to his conviction, he can proceed serving as a Member of Parliament.
The judgment, delivered by Justice S Okay Singh, additionally rejected appeals filed by the Uttar Pradesh authorities and Piyush Kumar Rai, son of the late Krishnanand Rai, in search of a rise in Ansari’s sentence.
The Allahabad excessive court docket’s resolution got here in response to an attraction filed by Afzal Ansari, difficult the four-year sentence imposed by the Particular Courtroom MP/MLA of Ghazipur within the Gangster Act case associated to Krishnanand Rai’s homicide.
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh had reserved the court docket’s judgment on July 4 after listening to Ansari’s attraction.
If the Allahabad excessive court docket had upheld the decrease court docket’s resolution, Ansari would have been required to vacate his seat in Parliament. In keeping with the Illustration of the Folks Act, any MP or state legislator sentenced to imprisonment of two years or extra shall be disqualified “from the date of such conviction” and stay disqualified for a further six years after serving their sentence.
Senior advocates Gopal Swaroop Chaturvedi and Dayashankar Mishra, together with advocate Upendra Upadhyay, argued on behalf of Afzal Ansari, saying that the motion initiated in opposition to him underneath the Gangster Act following Krishnanand Rai’s homicide case was “unlawful.”
Afzal Ansari, the brother of the late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, gained the Ghazipur seat on a Samajwadi Celebration ticket within the latest Lok Sabha polls, defeating BJP’s Paras Nath Rai and BSP’s Umesh Kumar Singh by a margin of 1,24,861 votes.
In April 2023, the MP MLA court docket in Ghazipur had convicted Afzal Ansari, who was then a Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) MP, in a kidnapping and homicide case associated to Krishnanand Rai’s killing. The court docket sentenced him to 4 years imprisonment and imposed a wonderful of Rs 1 lakh. The identical court docket had additionally convicted Mukhtar Ansari within the case, sentencing him to 10 years imprisonment and imposing a wonderful of Rs 5 lakh.
On account of the excessive court docket’s ruling in favor of Ansari’s attraction in opposition to his conviction, he can proceed serving as a Member of Parliament.
The judgment, delivered by Justice S Okay Singh, additionally rejected appeals filed by the Uttar Pradesh authorities and Piyush Kumar Rai, son of the late Krishnanand Rai, in search of a rise in Ansari’s sentence.
The Allahabad excessive court docket’s resolution got here in response to an attraction filed by Afzal Ansari, difficult the four-year sentence imposed by the Particular Courtroom MP/MLA of Ghazipur within the Gangster Act case associated to Krishnanand Rai’s homicide.
Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh had reserved the court docket’s judgment on July 4 after listening to Ansari’s attraction.
If the Allahabad excessive court docket had upheld the decrease court docket’s resolution, Ansari would have been required to vacate his seat in Parliament. In keeping with the Illustration of the Folks Act, any MP or state legislator sentenced to imprisonment of two years or extra shall be disqualified “from the date of such conviction” and stay disqualified for a further six years after serving their sentence.
Senior advocates Gopal Swaroop Chaturvedi and Dayashankar Mishra, together with advocate Upendra Upadhyay, argued on behalf of Afzal Ansari, saying that the motion initiated in opposition to him underneath the Gangster Act following Krishnanand Rai’s homicide case was “unlawful.”
Afzal Ansari, the brother of the late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, gained the Ghazipur seat on a Samajwadi Celebration ticket within the latest Lok Sabha polls, defeating BJP’s Paras Nath Rai and BSP’s Umesh Kumar Singh by a margin of 1,24,861 votes.
In April 2023, the MP MLA court docket in Ghazipur had convicted Afzal Ansari, who was then a Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) MP, in a kidnapping and homicide case associated to Krishnanand Rai’s killing. The court docket sentenced him to 4 years imprisonment and imposed a wonderful of Rs 1 lakh. The identical court docket had additionally convicted Mukhtar Ansari within the case, sentencing him to 10 years imprisonment and imposing a wonderful of Rs 5 lakh.
